The Card is issued in two variants, American Express and Visa, and is the top of the line variant of the Jet Airways ICICI Bank Credit Card Association.

Onboarding and renewal benefits

The credit card comes with a great proposition to start you off. In the first year, you get 10,000 JP Miles and a Jet Airways Economy Class domestic ticket code to get your relationship on this card started, on first swipe of the card.

On renewing your card, you get 5,000 JPMiles credit to your JetPrivilege Account, and another Economy Class ticket.

When I applied for the card back in the day, I requested for both the variants to be issued. With Amex having the better mileage earnings structure, I am able to get miles when I want. However, if Amex is not accepted, there is the Visa variant as well. Both my cards share their credit line, so for the Bank, they don’t have a double down exposure on me.

You can accumulate a maximum of 60,000 JPMiles against your spends in each anniversary year. When this cap is reached, a JPMiles Uncapping Fee of ₹ 7,500 is levied to your Credit Card account. If you pay the fee, you get further miles. If you don’t, the customer care reverses the fee and stops the ability to earn miles for the rest of the year.

Lounge Access

ICICI Bank has recently partnered with DragonPass, which is another Lounge network similar to Priority Pass. Via this membership (worth USD 99) which is comped to the Jet Airways ICICI Bank Sapphiro Credit Card Members, one gets two lounge trips abroad and two spa visits in India free of cost per annum.

Here are all the airports in India where one can access spa using DragonPass:

Delhi

Ahmedabad

Goa

Lucknow

Hyderabad

Bangalore

Mumbai

Pune

Raipur

With the Visa card being issued on the Signature Platform, one also gets two free lounge visits per quarter at the following airports: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore & Hyderabad.

Free Movie Tickets

ICICI Bank has had a long-standing deal with BookMyShow, where various cardholders get free tickets. In case you hold this card, you get to Buy one, Get one free ticket across India, with the ticket price capped at INR 400, which is pretty good in my experience. I manage to get free tickets every month using this card.

Annual Fees

The Fees for the first year is INR 5,000 plus applicable taxes, however, under the high-flyer offer, you get it for INR 2,500 plus taxes for the first year. You still get the 10,000 JPMiles and free base fare ticket as well. For the promotion, apply here. This promotion is valid only through December 31, 2017.

Remember, if you are JetPrivilege Platinum, you get to hold the card for free.

Value Assessment

As one of India’s biggest airline, Jet Airways’ ticket can be used very well if planned the right way. In various instances, I’ve used the ticket for a value of up to INR 8,000 as well. This recoups the value of the card fees for me. Additionally, the bonus miles accrue depending on your spend.

Overall Assessment

I’d think if you are Jet Airways’ regular, this card is a good card to have in your pocket to maximise your spends with the airline. The benefits on offer justify the price point. Even if you just looked at the startup miles, you get JPMiles at INR 0.25 per mile in this case, if you apply now.

Bottomline

The use case of this card is pointed towards those who want to deepen a relationship with Jet Airways/Jet Privilege and are willing to put money on the table in this regard. I may love the airline or hate them sometimes, but for me, they are the best full-service option out of Mumbai right now.

Comments

Just used the Dragon pass for O2 spa at Delhi airport. The staff at the spa were absolutely clueless about this tie up and flatly refused to entertain me.
I had to call up Dragonpass who then conferenced in O2 head office and got it sorted.
What finally was honoured is a 20 minutes foot massage.
Much hype for pretty much nothing, I would say!

Hi Ajay what do you mean by ‘ 2 Cards for the Price of one’? Do you mean to say that if we apply for both Amex and Visa varients, we will be charged for only one or are you referring to free add on card for other family member?

Have held this card for over a year or so now. Never got communicated by the bank about tie up with dragon pass. Will definitely be trying the spa next week. Any idea which spa in the mumbai and delhi airport will accept this card?

ICICI is better. One side benefit is that this card automatically makes you a ICICI Wealth customer. If you have other relationships with ICICI, like a savings account, you get a dedicated wealth management line instead of the usual low end customer care. Also, in Visa Signature movie tickets are capped at 250, whereas in ICICI it is 400/-.

For HDFC, I have the DCB, which is what I use more. I don’t use ICICI, since I don’t want the miles, but one free air ticket, BMS tickets, some miles and wealth management customer care are enough perks to offset the annual fees.